Pocitos (Montevideo)

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Location of Pocitos in Montevideo

Pocitos plan

Pocitos is a district ( barrio ) of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo .

Location and geography

Pocitos is located in the southern part of the Montevideo department . There it borders on the Punta Carretas district in the south . In the southeast it meets the coast of the Río de la Plata , where Pocitos has an extensive stretch of beach with the Playa de los Pocitos . To the west are the Barrios Parque Rodó and Cordón . Here the Bulevar Artigas forms the dividing line to the neighboring barrios. In the north it closes behind the Avenida Gral. Rivera Parque Batlle - Villa Dolores , while to the east from Avenida Dr. Luis Alberto de Herrera Buceo will continue the urban area. The area of ​​Pocitos is assigned to the municipality CH .

In the eastern part of the district, around where the street 26 de Marzo crosses Lorenzo J. Perez and La Gaceta , there is a small nameless stream flowing to the Río de la Plata , which in the early phase of the then still walled city of Montevideo, whose urban area was in the 18th century Century was essentially limited to the area of ​​today's old town , which is surrounded by city walls , for example for washing clothes. At that time this brook was known as de los Pocitos .

Playa de los Pocitos

Residents

There are currently 69,636 residents here, with the proportion of women clearly outweighing the 39,809 female population compared to 29,827 male residents (as of 2005).

history

The area around the Barrios Pocitos originally developed into a seaside resort for the middle and upper classes of residents of both the Uruguayan and the Argentine coastal region of the Río de la Plata . By means of a decree from 1881, Pocitos was included in the so-called Ciudad Novísima in the course of urban development . On May 5, 1886, the village "Nuestra Señora de los Pocitos" was officially established. The Barrios Fortuna , Víctor Manuel , Caprera and Artigas located between the Arroyo Pocitos Grande and Arroyo Pocitos Chico were then included in the "Plano General del Pueblo de los Pocitos" in 1888 . Large parts of the district were developed at that time by the entrepreneur Francisco Piria , who later also built a house for his daughter with the so-called Palacio Piria Chico on the outskirts of Pocitos. On the parceled areas, summer houses of high quality were built in partly extroverted architecture or freestanding and surrounded by gardens. The main means of transport in Pocitos at that time was the tram. In the period that followed, however, the district increasingly turned into a residential area of ​​permanent character. From the 1920s, in particular, the external appearance changed when the first changes were made to the Pocitos cadastre. The two architects Bello and Reboratti with their construction company Bello y Reborati, founded in 1921, played a key role in this . The first high-rise buildings were built in the 1930s. Benefiting from the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal , which was enacted in 1946, this process accelerated in the following years and the transformation of the original character Pocitos continues to this day.

Description and infrastructure

The quarter is home to a large number of diplomatic missions abroad. The Italian embassy is located here in Casa Towers and the Russian embassy in Casa Darnaud . The Swiss , Spanish and Egyptian diplomatic missions are also based in Pocitos.

Sights and important buildings

Pocitos also has the Plaza Tomás Gomensoro , Plaza D. Muñoz , Plaza Rubén Dario and Plaza Winston Churchill . Notable buildings are the Iglesia San Juan Bautista (since 1993 "Bien de Interés Municipal"), founded on September 11, 1914 Parish of San Juan Bautista or two each since 1986 as Monumento Histórico Nacional listed Casa Felipe Yriart. Los Claveles and Casa Williman . There is also a monument to José Pedro Varela dedicated to the reformer of the same name at Plaza Varela . The district also has numerous buildings that have been declared urban cultural assets ("Bien de Interés Municipal"). In addition to the already mentioned Casa Towers (1993) and Casa Darnaud (1993), with the year of the appointment in brackets, these are Casa Leborgne (1993), Casa Perotti (1993), Edificio El Mástil (1993), the Rambla Hotel (1993), Casa Defey (1995), Edificio El Malecón (2005), Edificio El Pilar (2005), Edificio Gilpe (2005), Edificio Guayaquí. La Goleta (2005), the Edificio Mónaco (2005), the Edificio Pocitos (2005) or the Edificio Positano (2005). Other important buildings are the apartment house on Bulevar Artigas 1046 corner of Gral. Arq. Alfredo Baldomir and the Casa Piria de Bertón , the so-called Palacio Piria Chico .

education

Escuela Brasil

Pocitos is also home to the German School Montevideo ( Colegio y Liceo Alemán ) founded in 1857 in Avenida Dr.Fco.Soca 1356, as well as the attached kindergarten elsewhere in the same quarter. The English-language private school St. Andrew's School , which was founded in 1963 and is located in Luis B.Cavia 2791 and teaches around 370 students, has also found its place here. Other schools in Pocitos are the Escuela Brasil (building declared Monumento Histórico Nacional in 2002 ), the Escuela Simon Bolivar , the Saint George's - Lester House Secondary School , the Escuela Nº 18 Noruega , the Colegio y Liceo Monte VI and the Colegio y Liceo San Juan Bautista .

Other important institutions Pocitos

• Club Nuevo Banco Comercial , corner of Rambla República del Peru and Avenida Luis A. de Herrera
• Instituto ILVEM
• Universidad de Montevideo Ingenieria
• Club Atlético Bohemios
• London Institute at 2381 Avenida Brasil
• Kibón

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  Street ( Calle Dr. José Scosería ) in Pocitos

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  Playa de los Pocitos

Sons and Daughters of the Barrios

• José García (1926-2011), football player

Web links

Commons : Pocitos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the Barrios Pocitos on montevideo.gub.uy (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Uruguayan National Statistics Institute for the classification of the barrios of Montevideo (PDF; 1.6 MB), accessed on May 5, 2014
2. ↑ Information about Pocitos on the Intendencia de Montevideo website ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Barrio Pocitos (Spanish) on montevideo.gub.uy, accessed April 27, 2014
4. ↑ Resumen histórico (Spanish), accessed on July 13, 2012
5. ↑ INTENDENCIA MUNICIPAL DE MONTEVIDEO - Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo (Spanish), accessed on July 13, 2012
6. ↑ Picture of the Plaza Winston Churchill
7. ^ Image of the Iglesia San Juan Bautista
8. ↑ http://www.arquidiocesis.net/index.php?seccion=parroquias
9. ^ Official website of the German School Montevideo
10. ↑ Official website of St. Andrew's School (English, Spanish)
11. ↑ Official website of Saint George's - Lester House Secondary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Internet presence of the Colegio y Liceo Monte VI
13. ^ Official website of the Colegio y Liceo San Juan Bautista
14. ↑ Official website of the Universidad de Montevideo Ingenieria
15. ↑ Official website of Club Atlético Bohemios ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ Official website of the London Institute

Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 30 ″  S , 56 ° 9 ′ 5 ″  W.